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The Treaty of Verdun — The 843 partition of Charlemagne’s empire among his three grandsons
Three brothers divided their grandfather’s empire into kingdoms of comparable size, the eldest keeping the imperial title and a strip of land from the North Sea to Italy. The partition was to outlast the empire it undid. (Editorial synthesis)
The Treaty of Verdun took place in 843 (Julian calendar). (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
The Treaty of Verdun took place in Verdun. (source: Larousse)
The Treaty of Verdun ended in the empire partitioned among the three surviving sons of the emperor Louis the Pious. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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